Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tonya Harding saga crossed a new frontier of sordidness with a plan by Penthouse magazine to reveal nude shots of the Olympic Bad Girl and ex-hubby Jeff Gillooly romping on their wedding night. Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione obtained a self-made videotape of the post-nuptials and intends to run stills in the magazine's 25th anniversary issue in September--plus sell copies of the tape...
Peter Collier and David Horowitz have made a business of probing the underbellies of grand American families in books about the Kennedys and the Fords. In The Roosevelts: An American Saga (Simon and Schuster; 542 pages; $27.50), written by Collier with research help from Horowitz, Theodore is portrayed as the head of a dynasty. Never mind that his family and Franklin's were distant cousins connected mainly by Eleanor, who was Theodore's niece. Her father was Theodore's brother Elliott, a dandy who late in life was capable of consuming six bottles of liquor before lunch...
...after a decade of personal and artistic freedom, he has written one for the American market. Generations of Winter (Random House; 592 pages; $25) will probably draw comparisons to War and Peace and Dr. Zhivago. In fact, Aksyonov has assembled a clumsy reproduction of a romantic Russian family saga, erratically decorated with historical murals, folklore, fantasy and B-movie dialogue...
...Mitch McDeer (played by Tom Cruise in "The Firm"), the novel's hero is a cigarette-smoking 11-year-old; in place of the Firm's boardroom, the setting is working-class Memphis. Nevertheless, the similarities remain, and Grisham ultimately leaves the reader with a heavily dramatized Southern family saga spliced into a patchwork of legal confrontations and cliched Mafia tough-talk...
...fact that there aren't 11 news programs in prime time, but 11 cousins of "America's Most Wanted." Instead, the TV news has embarked on a pitiful rear-guard action designed to defend their privileged "news" status, without giving up a single minute of the O.J. saga...